Dan Devine

It's a Friday afternoon during the summer. You are trying to convince your boss (and perhaps even yourself) that you are doing meaningful work before you clock out for the weekend. Well, stop that.

You and I both know that what you really want to do — what truly lives inside your soul, what you yearn for more than anything else — is to break free of your humdrum workaday lifestyle, cut loose and engulf your pre-happy-hour tedium in the white-hot hellfire of brutal slam dunks, all to the music of the spheres better known as the Quad City DJs' "Space Jam."

This is your best office life, and it is being lived by a hero who goes by the name of "Jake H."

One year after making the somewhat shocking decision to use the 29th pick in the first round of the 2014 draft on Josh Huestis, a lightly regarded prospect who may well have fallenout of the draft entirely if he hadn't agreed to become the NBA's first-ever "domestic draft-and-stash" player, the Oklahoma City Thunder have formally brought the Stanford swingman into the big-league fold.

Scott was the passenger in a 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe driven by his brother, Antonn Scott, that "failed to yield to officers on Interstate 85" in Banks County, Ga., according to Rob Moore of AccessWDUN.com:

A look around the league and the Web that covers it. It's also important to note that the rotation order and starting nods aren't always listed in order of importance. That's for you, dear reader, to figure out.

C: Bleacher Report. Ethan Skolnick talks to Luol Deng about the leadership role he's taken in the NBA's efforts in Africa and how it's helping the Miami Heat forward prepare for what will come next: "I really believe that my involvement in this world, or in this life, is yet to come [...]I just believe that my purpose in life is to really make it a better world."

You know how you have spent your entire life waiting for NBA center Chris Kaman to become the host of his own cable reality television series? Well, good news, sad friend: This is finally your day in the sun!

"Exploring Kaman," the six-episode web series that the veteran 7-footer debuted last fall, will be coming soon to a TV near you, thanks to AXS TV, the cable network owned by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.

The second edition of The Basketball Tournament — a five-on-five summer hoops extravaganza in which fan-vote-determined teams battle in a winner-take-all single-elimination tournament for a big cash prize — is set to conclude this weekend. Over the past three weeks, a whopping 97 teams featuring more than 500 players with pro experience — including a reported 125 players who've logged NBA or D-League time — have been whittled down to just four, who will battle it out in New York on Saturday in a pair of semifinal matchups for the right to face off in Sunday's final for the championship, the bragging rights and the grand prize of $1 million.

After spending the last 17 years balling on the East Coast with the Boston Celtics, Brooklyn Nets and Washington Wizards, Paul Pierce — a native of Inglewood, Calif. — has finally returned to the West Coast, signing a three-year, $10 million deal to rejoin former Celtics head coach Doc Rivers with the Los Angeles Clippers. Like many new additions and returning heroes before him, Pierce was invited by his new/old town's baseball team, the Los Angeles Dodgers, to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Tuesday night's game against the Oakland A's, which the Dodgers had christened "Clippers Night."

For the 37-year-old shot-maker, it would, somewhat regrettably, be a night to remember.

After going dark for the duration of a Cleveland Cavaliers' playoff run that ended with a mid-June loss in the 2015 NBA Finals, LeBron James ended his annual postseason social media blackout about two weeks ago. Most of his Twitter and Instagram missives since have had a promotional flair — hey, in case you hadn't heard, LeBron's in a little movie called "Trainwreck!" — but on Tuesday night, he decided to kill a little bit of his late July downtime by holding a brief question-and-answer session with his 22.7 million Twitter followers.

The Milwaukee Bucks took a major step toward remaining in Wisconsin on Tuesday. With Bucks head coach Jason Kidd reportedly watching from the gallery at the State Capitol in Madison, the Wisconsin State Assembly voted to approve a bill that will earmark $250 million in public money to help fund the construction of a new downtown arena.